<descriptor thcode="1"><thesaurus thcode="1" name="Common geographic areas" scope="Names and identifiers of commonly-known geographic areas including oceans, continents, countries, states and provinces in North America, counties in the United States, USGS map quadrangles, and hydrologic units, nested and cross-referenced by overlap." creator="U.S. Geological Survey" rights="Public domain" edition="1.0" date="2002-03-21" codetype="alpha" prefix="geo" uri="http://www.usgs.gov/science/CommonGeographicAreas" tblname="geo" nonpref="geonp" relterm="geort" root_code="root" contact="pschweitzer"><category><term thcode="25" code="13" name="transitive" parent="12" scope="Narrower terms have an &quot;is a&quot; relationship with their broader terms, and generally can be described as part-of, type-of, or instance-of the broader term."/><term thcode="25" code="30" name="ambiguous labels" parent="26" scope="A given preferred label may be used for more than one concept in the thesaurus. A concept must be specified using its unique identifier (code). This may occur in the names of places or people."/><term thcode="25" code="4" name="place" parent="2" scope="Terms indicate extent in space, typically by reference as the names of geographic areas known from information that is stored elsewhere."/><term thcode="25" code="16" name="hierarchical" parent="11" scope="Substantive broader-narrower relationships exist among the terms."/><term thcode="25" code="13" name="transitive" parent="12" scope="Narrower terms have an &quot;is a&quot; relationship with their broader terms, and generally can be described as part-of, type-of, or instance-of the broader term."/><term thcode="25" code="30" name="ambiguous labels" parent="26" scope="A given preferred label may be used for more than one concept in the thesaurus. A concept must be specified using its unique identifier (code). This may occur in the names of places or people."/><term thcode="25" code="4" name="place" parent="2" scope="Terms indicate extent in space, typically by reference as the names of geographic areas known from information that is stored elsewhere."/><term thcode="25" code="16" name="hierarchical" parent="11" scope="Substantive broader-narrower relationships exist among the terms."/></category><altlabel><altlabel>Augmented FIPS 10-4 and FIPS 6-4</altlabel><altlabel>Augmented FIPS 10-4 and FIPS 6-4</altlabel><altlabel>CommonGeographicAreas</altlabel><altlabel>CommonGeographicAreas</altlabel></altlabel></thesaurus><term thcode="1" code="h17110015" name="Nisqually" parent="h171100" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h171100" name="Puget Sound" parent="h1711" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h1711" name="Puget Sound" parent="h17" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h17" name="Pacific Northwest" parent="hroot" scope="hydrologic region"/><term thcode="1" code="hroot" name="US hydrologic units" parent="fUS" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS" name="United States" parent="fLD10" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fLD10" name="North America" parent="fLD" scope="continent"/><term thcode="1" code="fLD" name="Land" parent="root" scope="continent"/><term thcode="1" code="root" name="Earth" scope="Common geographic areas focused on the US"/></bt><rt><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEH3" name="Anderson Lake" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEH2" name="Ashford" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEE2" name="Bald Hill" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEF2" name="Eatonville" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEG2" name="Elbe" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48124SED4" name="Fort Lewis" parent="q48124SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p545" name="Fort Lewis Military Reservation" parent="p23" scope="Army"/><term thcode="1" code="q48124SEF4" name="Frederickson" parent="q48124SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1194" name="Gifford Pinchot National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="p2526" name="Glacier View Wilderness" parent="p14" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEG4" name="Glenoma" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEE1" name="Harts Lake" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEH4" name="Kiona Peak" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEG1" name="Lake Kapowsin" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NED2" name="Lake Lawrence" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEH1" name="Le Dout Creek" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f53041" name="Lewis" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NED1" name="Mckenna" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEG3" name="Mineral" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47122NWC2" name="Mount Rainier East" parent="q47122NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1493" name="Mount Rainier National Park" parent="p18" scope="National Park"/><term thcode="1" code="q47122NWB2" name="Mount Rainier West" parent="q47122NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2877" name="Mount Rainier Wilderness" parent="p22" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="q47122NWA2" name="Mount Wow" parent="q47122NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48124SEC4" name="Nisqually" parent="q48124SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p972" name="Nisqually Indian Reservation" parent="p15" scope="Indian Reservations"/><term thcode="1" code="p1882" name="Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q48124SEG4" name="Orting" parent="q48124SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f53053" name="Pierce" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q47122NWA4" name="Randle" parent="q47122NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47122NWA3" name="Sawtooth Ridge" parent="q47122NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1274" name="Snoqualmie National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="q48124SEE4" name="Spanaway" parent="q48124SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEF1" name="Tanwax Lake" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2748" name="Tatoosh Wilderness" parent="p14" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEC1" name="Tenalquot Prairie" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEF3" name="The Rockies" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f53067" name="Thurston" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEC2" name="Vail" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47122NWB3" name="Wahpenayo Peak" parent="q47122NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>